America’s power is usually explained with three familiar words:

the dollar, the military, and the debt.

But what if those are not three separate stories?

What if they are one maintenance system?

In America Maintenance Manual, Haijian Xing argues that the United States became rich not simply because it produced more, but because it occupied the commanding interfaces of the global system.

The dollar gave America global purchase permission.

The U.S. military helped protect the reach of that permission across trade routes, capital flows, and strategic networks.

And U.S. Treasuries became one of the world’s preferred storage mechanisms for the very dollars that flowed abroad.

The result was an extraordinary bargain:

America could buy from the world.
The world could get rich selling to America.
And much of the money could still flow back into American assets.

This book asks a blunt question:

How does America keep that throne?

Its answer is just as blunt:

Not by making everything itself.
Not by humiliating suppliers.
Not by rejecting foreign talent.
Not by casually weaponizing the very financial system that made America strong.

Instead, America must preserve the conditions that made the world want to participate in its system in the first place:

a desirable consumer market
trusted capital markets
a credible dollar
strong property rights
imported global talent
enough domestic industrial capacity to remain resilient
and a global architecture that stays more useful than any alternative

Drawing on political economy, geoeconomics, trade, reserve-currency logic, sanctions, talent flows, and global production networks, America Maintenance Manual reframes American power as a problem of system design and system upkeep.

This is not a conspiracy theory.
It is not a conventional history book.
It is a sharp, provocative systems argument about how America rose, how it stays rich, and how Washington could still damage its own position faster than any foreign rival can.

For readers interested in the future of the dollar, U.S.-China rivalry, sanctions, industrial policy, globalization, and the hidden operating logic of American power, this book offers a different map.